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Literary Criticism

Skull Cathedral A Vestigial Anatomy

Wiley Melissa

ISBN: PB: 9781938769566, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In Skull Cathedral, Melissa Wiley pulls stories from the vestigial remnants of the creatures we were or could have become. The appendix, pinky toes, tonsils, male nipples, wisdom teeth, and coccyx are starting points through which Wiley explores exal...

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Literary Criticism

Ecological Poetics; or, Wallace Stevens's Birds

Wolfe Cary

ISBN: PB: 9780226687971, ISBN: HB: 9780226687834, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens's evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us...

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Fiction

Literary Criticism

Upright Revolution Or Why Humans Walk Upright

wa Thiong'o Ngugi

ISBN: HB: 9780857426475, Seagull Books, September 2019
48 pp., 21.5x21.5 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Science has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, is as riveting as what master storyteller Ngugi wa Thiong'o offers in "The Upright Revolution". Blending myth and folklore with an...

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Linguistics

Grammars of Approach Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque

Wall Cynthia

ISBN: HB: 9780226467665, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 16 halftones, 7 line drawings, 2 tables

In "Grammars of Approach", Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of "ap...

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Literary Criticism

Africa

Race, Nation, Translation South African Essays, 1990-2013

Wicomb Zoe, van der Vlies Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300226171, Yale University Press, January 2019
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoe Wicomb, one of South Africa's leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first time in a single volume. This compilation features critical essays on the works of such prominent South...

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Culture Studies

Social Life of Books Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

Williams Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780300240252, ISBN: HB: 9780300208290, Yale University Press, January 2019
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 57 black&white illus.

A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century. Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainme...

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Literary Criticism

Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature

Whittier Treat John

ISBN: PB: 9780226545134, ISBN: HB: 9780226811703, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

"The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature" tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modern nation to the present. John Whittier Treat takes up both canonical and forgotten...

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Design

Designing English

Wakelin Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9781851244751, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2018
224 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 92 colour illus.

Early manuscripts in the English language include religious works, plays, romances, poetry and songs, as well as charms, notebooks, science and medieval medicine. How did scribes choose to arrange the words and images on the page in each manuscript?...

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Performing Arts

Comedies

Walser Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780857424693, Seagull Books, February 2018
224 pp., 19x15.2 cm

Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) has seen in recent years. As more of his previously little known work has been translated into English, readers have...

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Literary Criticism

Rootedness The Ramifications of a Metaphor

Wampole Christy

ISBN: HB: 9780226317656, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

People have long imagined themselves as rooted creatures, bound to the earth – and nations – from which they came. In "Rootedness", Christy Wampole looks toward philosophy, ecology, literature, history, and politics to demonstrate how the metaphor of...

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